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Composer Wallingford Riegger 'Fesses Up' in this 1961 Interview
Wallingford Riegger working on a composition, date unknown.(unknown/Wikimedia Commons)We have just listened to a concert featuring the world premiere of Riegger's Sinfonietta. But what about the other...
View ArticleListen: World Premieres from Four Emerging Composers with the New Jersey...
From July 10-15, 2017, four young composers were awarded the opportunity to workshop new orchestral music with composer Steven Mackey, conductor JoAnn Falletta and the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra as...
View ArticleFive and a Half Things I Say on the First Day of Orchestration Class
Join Q2 Music on Sunday, April 24 (with an encore presentation Tuesday, April 26) for our second annual Symphomania, a 24-hour marathon stream of music that offers a vision of orchestral repertoire...
View ArticleWatch: Inside Tristan Perich's Home and '1-Bit' Studio
We visited the home and work space of Tristan Perich, a New York-based sound, visual and installation artist whose music blends a composer's interest in acoustic classical instruments and electronic...
View Article#4095: With David Garland, 'Verdancy'
Hear music by songwriter and multi-instrumentalist David Garland, who presents music from his latest work - a 4-CD set called Verdancy. The music is a celebration of nature, time, and expanded sense of...
View Article#4122: Music from Guitarist-Composers
Hear some new approaches to guitar music from guitarist-composers on this New Sounds. The guitarist-composer Fabi Reyna is the founder and editor of the magazine "She Shreds" which bills itself as the...
View ArticleGet Inside Max Richter’s Head: Highlights from the ‘Black Mirror’ Composer’s...
In the latest episode of Fast Company’s Creative Conversation podcast series composer Max Richter explained his method: “I’m looking for things that feel inevitable and sort of pre-existent, almost;...
View Article#4154: With Tyshawn Sorey, from the 2018 Music Now Festival
Hear music by and an interview with composer, improviser, drummer, trombonist, and pianist Tyshawn Sorey. A 2017 MacArthur Fellow, Sorey makes music that is wonderfully hard to pin down and floats best...
View Article'Take Back the Harbor,' Exorcisms, 'Imagine It Forward,' 'Halfway to Dawn,'...
Roger Ross Williams and Kristi Jacobson discuss the documentary, "Take Back the Harbor." Clemency Burton-Hill offers her classical music recommendations for the day. Mike Mariani talks about his recent...
View ArticleBilly Strayhorn: Unsung Jazz Great, African Diaspora International Film...
Beth Comstock joins us to talk about her newest book, Imagine It Forward: Courage, Creativity, and the Power of Change. The book offers advice on how to grapple with the challenges to change we face...
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[Unedited] Meredith Monk and Krista Tippett
Krista Tippett’s unedited interview with Meredith Monk, award-winning, composer, singer, director and choreographer. She spoke with her on January 11, 2012 from the studios of APM in St. Paul,...
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[Unedited] Mohammed Fairouz with Krista Tippett
Mohammed Fairouz is a composer whose opera and symphonies have been performed at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, and The Kennedy Center. His 11 albums include “Native Informant,” “In The Shadow of No...
View ArticleMatthew Aucoin
What does it really mean to make opera in the 21st century? That’s the question that keeps the artists of American Modern Opera Company up at night, and those of us that love the art form should all be...
View Article#4095: With David Garland, 'Verdancy'
Hear music by songwriter and multi-instrumentalist David Garland, who presents music from his latest work - a 4-CD set called Verdancy. The music is a celebration of nature, time, and expanded sense of...
View ArticleStrauss's Ideal Birthday: How Would The Composer Spend His 155th?
June 11th, 2019, marks the 155th anniversary of Richard Strauss’s birth. You can tell a lot about a person from the way they spend their birthday. While some let the day pass with no obvious...
View Article'OCTET', a New Show From Dave Malloy
Composer, playwright, and lyricist Dave Malloy joins us to talk about “OCTET,” his new musical at the Signature Theatre. The show plays through June 30.
View Article#4122: Music from Guitarist-Composers
Hear some new approaches to guitar music from guitarist-composers on this New Sounds. The guitarist-composer Fabi Reyna is the founder and editor of She Shreds, a magazine dedicated to women guitarists...
View ArticleThe Sound of America
There are many Americas. Nowadays they barely speak to each other. But during the most perilous years of the last century, one young composer went in search of a sound that melded many of the nation's...
View Article#4154: With Tyshawn Sorey, from the 2018 Music Now Festival
Hear music by and an interview with composer, improviser, drummer, trombonist, and pianist Tyshawn Sorey. A 2017 MacArthur Fellow, Sorey makes music that is wonderfully hard to pin down and floats best...
View ArticleComposers and Their Songbirds
Music, in essence, is just organized sound waves moving through air. Instrumentalists and vocalists strike and vibrate c(h)ords to give voice, as it were, to black dots upon the page. Composers rely on...
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